IEEE WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED ACCESS OF IMAGE AND VIDEO LIBRARIES (In Conjunction with CVPR'97) Puerto Rico June 20, 1997 General Chair: Rosalind W. Picard, MIT Media Lab Organizing Committee: Fang Liu, chair; Glenn Healey, Michael Swain, Ramin Zabih Program Committee: Ingemar Cox, Dick Delanoy, David Forsyth, Anil Jain, Ramesh Jain, Takeo Kanade, Rangachar Kasturi, B.S. Manjunath, Wayne Niblack, Alex Pentland, Harpreet Sawhney, Stan Sclaroff, Linda Shapiro, Rohini Srihari, Carlo Tomasi, HongJiang Zhang The purpose of this workshop is to promote information exchange and interaction among researchers who are interested in various aspects of accessing the content of image and video libraries. Research in computer vision and pattern recognition is needed to provide tools which give users access to the content of the libraries. This includes the problems of ORGANIZING, REPRESENTING, QUERYING, RETRIEVING, ANNOTATING, and BROWSING large collections of video and image data. The domain of video and image libraries also restates the typical automatic recognition problem as a semi-automatic problem, that of assisting and incorporating human users in the system loop. NEW REPRESENTATIONS are needed to assist users in interacting with large amounts of visual data, especially for video, which presents the challenging problems which arise in demarcating events or actions of interest. Research is needed to exploit the PRESENCE OF THE USER, such as obtaining incremental specifications for a query and using user feedback to combine semantic, perceptual, and other criteria in evaluating the results of a query. A research emphasis is needed on INCORPORATING MULTIPLE MODELS, especially the ones for shape, color, texture, geometry, and syntax, so that the user does not have to specify low-level model parameters and combinations. When databases and types of queries can be well-specified in advance, then strategies of EFFICIENT INDEXING of visual information are needed, in addition to techniques for combining visual with more traditional database information to respond to queries. Realistic EVALUATION CRITERIA are needed, including test databases of realistic size in domains of interest, and measures of similarity that allow variations in perceptual, semantic, and other criteria and including measures of accuracy and efficiency in assisting the user. The workshop will be held on 20 June, the day after CVPR'97. Hotel rates for CVPR'97 have been extended. Papers submitted will be reviewed by the program committee. A proceedings will be made available a few months after the workshop. Submissions should be 5-8 pages in the format of final papers for CVPR proceedings, including figures and references. There should not be substantial duplication between papers submitted to the workshop and those accepted at the main conference. Send four copies of the paper and a cover sheet stating the (1) paper title, (2) Brief (2-3 sentence) summary of the topic and contribution, (3) contact author's name, (4) address, (5) telephone number, (6) Fax number, and (7) electronic mail address to: Fang Liu E15-390, MIT Media Lab 20 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. Important Dates: Deadline for Submission: 24 March 1997 Notification of Acceptance: 28 April 1997 Camera-ready Papers Due: 26 May 1997 The workshop homepage is at http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~swain/cfp-ivl.html Sponsored by the PAMI Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society